List Words
Foetus
Same as Fetus.
Pimped
of Pimp
Dabbing
of Dab
Newly
Lately; recently.
Punner
A punster.
Pigsty
A pigpen.
Chilled
Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."
Empale
To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Suburb
An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the sub..
Acidifying
of Acidify
Gravid
Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.
Diver
One who, or that which, dives.
Camel-backed
Having a back like a camel; humpbacked.
Plaid
A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.
Cosy
See Cozy.
Erg
The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one cen..
Quirky
Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.
Kirtle
A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn doth by men and women.
Pandit
See Pundit.
Soph
A contraction of Soph ister.
Pence
pl. of Penny. See Penny.
Anyone
One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]
Decrepitate
To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Poetry
The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
Men
pl. of Man.
Felt
of Feel
Fibber
One who tells fibs.
Scone
A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.
Sleigh
Sly.
Bonder
One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
Sorrel
Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.
Straddle
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Wing-shell
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus.
Leaper
One who, or that which, leaps.
Curtail
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Gasket
A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
Costless
Costing nothing.
Rifled
of Rifle
Jacob
A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.
Baize
A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
Thawed
of Thaw
Substrate
Having very slight furrows.
Bosses
of Boss
Hydra
A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound w..
Listen
To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
Unoriginated
Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated.
Manta
See Coleoptera and Sea devil.
That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
Dacoit
One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.
Tawny
Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
